Claudius Hollyband

Claudius Hollyband (born Claude de Sainliens; Latin: Claudius a Sancto Vinculo) was a 16th-century French-English linguist, philologist, phonologist, lexicographer and instructor of English, French, Italian and Latin. He was the author of many books and treatises regarding language, including one of the earliest French-English dictionaries, A Dictionarie French and English, published in London in 1593. A Huguenot refugee from Moulins where he was born in 1534, France, Hollyband arrived in London, England in about 1564 and died in this city in 1594.

Claudius Hollyband

Claudius Hollyband (born Claude de Sainliens; Latin: Claudius a Sancto Vinculo) was a 16th-century French-English linguist, philologist, phonologist, lexicographer and instructor of English, French, Italian and Latin. He was the author of many books and treatises regarding language, including one of the earliest French-English dictionaries, A Dictionarie French and English, published in London in 1593. A Huguenot refugee from Moulins where he was born in 1534, France, Hollyband arrived in London, England in about 1564 and died in this city in 1594.